| Hits | ||||
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| Greatest hits album by | ||||
| Released | March 1996 | |||
| Recorded | 1985–96 | |||
| Length | 60:36 | |||
| Label | Rhino/Atlantic, Virgin | |||
| Producer | Mike Rutherford, Christopher Neil, Russ Titelman | |||
| Mike + The Mechanics chronology | ||||
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Hits is a compilation album by Mike + The Mechanics, released in 1996 except in the United States and Canada, where it was released in 2005. It contains nearly all of the band's hits up to the time of its release. "All I Need Is a Miracle" was re-recorded for the album.
In September 2004 the album was repackaged as a double CD with the band's 2004 album Rewired as Rewired + Hits. The cover is a close up of part of the Rewired cover overlaid with both album covers side by side.
Reception
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Q | [2] |
Peter Kane in Q wrote, "These are all songs that are uniformly high on melody and craftsmanship, with mercifully no hidden agenda."[2] In a retrospective review, AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine declared Hits "a first-rate compilation, giving the casual fan all of the essential Mike + the Mechanics tracks".[1]
Track listing
- "All I Need Is a Miracle '96"
- "Over My Shoulder"
- "Word of Mouth"
- "The Living Years"
- "Another Cup of Coffee"
- "Nobody's Perfect"
- "Silent Running"
- "Nobody Knows"
- "Get Up"
- "A Time and Place"
- "Taken In"
- "Everybody Gets a Second Chance"
- "A Beggar on a Beach of Gold"
- Tracks 1*, 7, and 11 are taken from Mike + The Mechanics (1985)
- Tracks 4, 6, and 8 are taken from Living Years (1988)
- Tracks 3, 9, 10, and 12 are taken from Word of Mouth (1991)
- Tracks 2, 5, and 13 are taken from Beggar on a Beach of Gold (1995)
- *Re-recording of original album track.
Weekly charts
| Chart (1996) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Albums (ARIA)[3] | 139 |
References
- 1 2 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Hits – Mike + the Mechanics | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
- 1 2 Kane, Peter (April 1996). "Mike & The Mechanics: Hits". Q: 123.
- ↑ "Part of Mike and Mechanic's ARIA Albums chart history 1988 to 2022, received from ARIA in 2022". ARIA. Retrieved 3 December 2023 – via Imgur.com.